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Can Graham Platner win?

Graham Platner speaks to Mainers at a town hall at the Elks Lodge 188 on June 7, 2026, in Portland, Maine. | Laura Brett/Getty Images Last fall, Graham Platner — an oysterman running for the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Maine — landed in hot water, when some of his old Reddit posts, showing him blaming victims of sexual assault and calling himself a communist, surfaced. Then, there was a story about the Nazi imagery tattooed on his chest. He had the tattoo covered up. Platner emerged from those scandals relatively unscathed by admitting to his checkered past and saying that h...